Terry Crews' Biggest Fitness Fails Are Hilariously Bad

You probably think Terry Crews' impressive physique allows him to tackle anything with ease, but the former NFL player and current actor admits he's made many a fitness blunder — in fact, he once defined exercise as "a series of mistakes that you have to fight through."

But what could Crews possibly do wrong? We needed the answer, so MensHealth.com caught up with the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star at the FireFly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, where he partnered with Panera to deliver food in honor of the chain's delivery service expansion.

Terry Crews delivers Panera to concert goers at Firefly Music Festival on June 16, 2018

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We all know Terry Crews has fitness down to a science — but it turns out, even Sergeant Terry Jeffords makes mistakes sometimes.

He didn't know gyms cost money

Crews says losing his identity as an athlete following his NFL retirement in 1997 was rough. Although he gained a few pounds from emotionally eating late night burgers, Crews forced himself into the gym after wife Rebecca King-Crews pinched his back fat. However, getting started was tricky, since the former athlete wasn't accustomed to paying for workouts.

"I remember going to a gym and I was like, 'I’m gonna work out here,'" he recalls. But no one, not even Terry Crews, gets a free membership. The gym insisted he pay for a day pass.

He was an annoying workout partner

The actor attempted to hit the gym with his wife, but the experience was horrible, he says. King-Crews complained of being too tired to keep up with her husband — and in response, Crews admonished her for not working hard enough.

"No, no, you’re not tired. You don’t want it," he remembers saying. Later, Crews found out the cause of King-Crews' fatigue: She was pregnant with their son, Isaiah.

This was during his "toxic masculinity phase," he says — which, thankfully, he's since recovered from. "You get into that bro thing and everybody’s got to push it to the limits," he says. "Never again."

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